No blogs for a
while …sorry about that, hopefully that will now change!!

I had a phone
call on Friday asking if we could be available to play Saturday as another
band couldn’t make it. After a bit of phoning around it was all agreed that
we could only we would be a man down…Railroad had made previous plans. So not
wanting to let the pub down we said that we would do it as a 4 piece.

So with a bit of
set jiggling I sorted the set out for a 4 piece. 4 weeks ago my guitar amp
decided to stop working. Luckily Railroad has a plethora of amps, so he lent
me his Laney 100w head. I had borrowed this previously at another gig but
managed to get a lot of hiss and compression. So this time I asked a favour
of another fine musician…Karn. He lent me a
fantastic Hughes and Kettner 3 switch pre amp
pedal. This, along with his advice regarding guitar amp set up/ general music
stuff turned out to be just the thing and my borrowed amp sounded fantastic.
So we set up with plenty of time to spare and sound checked sharp dressed
man.

The pub had
Halloween fancy dress theme this night and people certainly pulled out the
stops. We had the winged soldier from Flash Gordon (..Gordons
alive?) a flasher in a raincoat, witchy chamber
maid, bloody nurses, too many to mention.We started
the set with Whitesnake’s ‘Fool for your loving’,
followed by Tie your mother down. People were up and dancing from the start.
We finished the first set with Skin’s ‘Look but don’t touch’.

The second set started with ACDC’s ‘Play ball’ followed by eat the
rich. By this time the room was packed and people were dancing and singing
along. The second set finished with 4 encores. A fantastic night and a
fantastic crowd.

Thank you all
for coming along and making it a great event. We are booked here again next
year so look out for us.

If you hear of
other pubs that are booking for next year and you think that we would go down
well, please let us know!!

Our next gig is
The Duke of Wellington in Shoreham by sea on Friday 17th November
and the White Hart in Littlehampton on Saturday 18th November.

Apologies
for the lack of blog writing, but it’s been a busy time with one thing or
another, no excuse I know, but hey!!

Back
at ‘The Duke ‘ We haven’t played herefor quite a few years. It was a great night
with a packed house all there for the music, which the pub promotes and
encourages. (what a change). All set up and sound
checked by 8.30. Ready to start at 9.15. The set started with Whitesnake’s ‘Fool for your loving’ then into ‘Play ball’
by ACDC. The evening warmed up with some Led Zeppelin,
and Deep Purple’s well as some lesser known songs by Skin. The first set
ended with ACDCs Thunderstruck, with everyone joining in.

The
second set started with Queens ‘Tie your mother down’ and then into ‘Its my life’ to great applause
and singing. The set finished with Welcome to the jungle and Whole lot of
Rosie.

It
was a great night with a great crowd and fantastic beer. Well worth going to.
We will be booking up again soon, so look out on our gig list. Thank you to
everyone who came along, you know who you are. See
you all soon.

THE
CROWS NEST

Well it was good to be back at the Crow’s
Nest last Saturday. We haven’t played there for quite a long time. I have to
say it’s not the same since they put a carvery bar in where the stage used to
be. Still it was good to be back.

We rocked up about 7.30 and finally got our
equipment unloaded and set up on stage. Noel was performing drumming duties
again as Alan was playing for Saxonise. The England
v Germany friendly was on so we waited until that had finished before we
started. It was chucking it down outside so what with that and the football
we didn’t expect to get that many people along. We were really surprised when
loads of familiar faces appeared. It was great to see you all.

We started the set with ‘Play ball’ –
AC/DC, followed by ‘Give me all your loving’ by ZZ Top and then Iron Maiden’s‘ Stranger
in a strange land’.The first set
finished with Wasted years. (2 Iron Maiden numbers in one set…good eh?).

After a very short break and a chat we
started the 2nd set with Tie your mother down and then The
Immigrant song (topical!) A new song by ‘Skin’ – ‘ House
of Love‘ was next, this went down a storm. This was followed by a bit of Airbourne Then another new one…Aerosmith’s ‘Eat the Rich’This went
down really well as well. We finished the set with a request of ‘Sweet Child
of Mine’.

Thank you all for coming along – too many
to mention, but you know who you are.

See you all again at The Brambletye in Forest Row next Saturday.

THE OLD MARKET, BRIGHTON

This was a gig of two thoughts. One was
excitement about playing in such a great venue. The other was the reason we
were doing it, which was in memory of Justin. So he was in our thoughts for
the whole event, we even had his bass on stage on a stand. He would have
loved it.

The Old Market is a lovely theatre, It can
hold 500 people standing or 300 seated. It has a small bar in the auditorium
and a large bar outside. It was pretty easy to load and unload equipment from
the loading bay straight up the ramp onto the stage, (which is really unusual
for us). After all the equipment and people had arrived and set up, each band
had a sound check.

It’s nice to be able to hear yourself from
a floor monitor, usually we are not mic’d up and
just have a loud back line.

The doors opened at 7.00 and the first
people rolled in pretty much straight away.

The first band the Guilty started at 7.30.
(This was the band that Justin was playing in). They performed a great set
with our own Richie Wicks standing in on bass for a few numbers, as he wanted
to pay his respects to Tinman.

After a short break and a few beers, DYL
were ready to go. They played a more ‘pop’ set that was excellent and gave a
different dimension and variety to the evening’s music.

‘No way out’ were top of the bill and came
on at 9.30. We started with ‘Hell aint a bad place’
by ACDC, followed by Queen’s ‘Tie your mother down’ and Airbourne’s
‘Too much, too young, too fast’. Then it was time for Glen to make his
drumming debut. Glen has been the inspiration behind the whole event. He has
only been drumming for a short while, and wanted to show his skills on a
large stage. He performed ‘Back in black’ with us, to huge round of applause.

After that number Alan came back on and we
carried on with ‘You give love a bad name’ by Bon Jovi, and ‘Shoot to
thrill’. Big Pete said a few word before we played the next number, in
tribute to Justin as the next song was one of his favourites. This was ‘Long
arm of the law’ by Saxon. 2 more numbers …’Look but don’t touch’ by Skin and
Iron Maiden’s‘Wasted years’ finished the night off.

It was a fantastic night,
I will let you know how much money we have raised in due course. But thank
you everyone who came along, contributed and helped.

Our next gig is Saturday 19th
March at the 3 Crowns in Ashurst Wood.

THE
3 CROWNS, ASHURST WOOD

Back
at the 3 Crowns for the first time this year. Great to be back
! Good to see so many familiar faces again. It was also good to have
Railroad back with us after his time off for sexual manoeuvres and playing
with another band.

We
were set up nice and early, but still made our drummer Alan, move his kit
over by a foot. (He loves doing that). After a quick sound check and sorting
out the lights we were ready to start.

We
have changed the set around for this month and started with Hell aint a bad place and Shot down in flames by ACDC, this
was followed by Stranger in a strange land by Iron Maiden. We added the old
favourite, Blind Man by Deep Purple into the set, as we hadn’t played that
for ages and thought that it would make a change. The first set finished with
Skin’s Look but don’t touch.

After
a well-deserved break, The second set started with Play ball and Tie your
mother down. Followed by Led Zeppelin’s Immigrant song. The set finished with
Whole lot of Rosie, to great applause.

I
would like to thank everyone who came along and helped to make a great
evening, you know who you are. Thanks go to the 3 Crowns…Andy and bar staff,
and for their hospitality. We are back there on Saturday 19th March.

If
you haven’t done already, please can you get your tickets for our charity gig
at THE OLD MARKET theatre in Hove. This is in aid of
MIND charity, and in memory of Justin (TINMAN) who tragically died last year.
You have to get your tickets on line at the address on the poster. Hopefully
see you all there.

THE
POTTERS, NEW YEARS EVE

It
was good to know that this New Year’s eve, The Potters said that this was the
fastest that they had ever sold out of the tickets. So we were off to a good
start.

I
had planned to set my gear up at 6, go home collect people, have a curry then
go to the gig. Things never work out do they?We had booked the curry for 7, so plenty of time. But after waiting an
hour and no food, the restaurant said that it would be another halfan hour, and that I should have known that
it wold take that long on new year’s eve. Well I didn’t know as I had booked
for 7 and assumed that they would accommodate the larger crowd. So I had to
leave without any food. Luckily the waiter drove me to the gig as it was
close by. Still I got to the gig and the others had set up and were ready for
a sound check. We started the set at 9.15 with’ Sharp dressed man’ , for a change followed by a bit of ACDC. The set
finished at 10.15 with Iron Maiden’s ‘Wasted Years’. With a well deserved
rest we started the second set at 10.45 with a tribute to Lemmy
in the form of our own version of ‘Ace of spades’ .then ‘Play ball’ by ACDC. This set ended at 11.45 with
Whole lot of Rosie.

The
Pub then gave everyone a glass of wine and atmidnight we welcomed in the new
year.

As a
third set, we played a rocked up version of ‘Old Lang Syne’
followed by some Zep, more ACDC, Sabbath and finally
Keep on rocking in a free world.

It
was a great night and everyone there had a fantastic time. Thank you to Matt
at the Potters for inviting us to play, we had a blast.

Our
first gig of 2016 is at the Brewers Arms in Burgess Hill on Saturday 16th
Jan.

If
you haven’t done already, please can you get your tickets for our charity gig
at THE OLD MARKET theatre in Hove. This is in aid of
MIND charity, and in memory of Justin (TINMAN) who tragically died last year.
You have to get your tickets on line at the address on the poster. Hopefully
see you all there.